Hearing the words “your child has ADHD” can bring a mix of emotions: relief, worry, validation, fear, and about a hundred questions all at once. For us, it was both familiar and still unsettling. ADHD wasn’t new to our family. My husband has ADHD, so there was a sense of recognition and a thought of this explains a lot . But alongside that familiarity came fear. A quiet, protective fear that our child might have to relive some of the harder parts kids faced in the ’80s, when